Qweird Cinema: Knife + Heart at the Rosendale Theatre
NR | Queer Slasher | 1 Hour 42 Minutes | $10.00 General Admission/$6.00 Members
Doors: 9:15pm
Screening: 10:00pm
Food Popup from Delfino’s
LGBTQ&A with queer indie film distributor Frank Jaffe, founder of Altered Innocence.
We’re kicking the series off with a film that is not for the faint of heart. Yann Gonzalez’s 2018 film is like if a Dario Argento giallo met a Kenneth Anger film at an 80s sexploitation slasher conference.
Paris, 1979, Anne (Vanessa Paradis) is a porn director who’s just found out one of her actors has been brutally slain at a nightclub. Despite the unease Anne pushes on and begins a new production inspired by the murder. Things spiral out from there. The film is slick, sexy, and uneasy, and its tone straddles the line of sexuality and exploitation, camp and self-seriousness. It’s a love letter to a bygone era, when queerness existed in the shadows of cinema, peering out of peep shows to tempt and titillate. Gonzalez captures the pornography industry with a stylized lens, lush color, and an electric soundtrack composed by M83.
If you’re squeamish this might not be the one for you, but if you love a slasher and you want one that’s unabashedly queer, you’re in the right place.
Kingston Film Foundation and WTF Wednesday Present: Qweird Cinema is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
